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ADAM SKIRVING (1719-1803)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 193 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADAM
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SKIRVING (1719-1803)  , Scottish
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song-writer, was
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born in
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Haddington in 1719 . He became a
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farmer at Garleton, near Haddington, and died in
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April 1803 . He was buried at Athelstaneford . His reputation rests on two Jacobite
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ballads on the
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battle of
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Prestonpans, one of which, " Hey, Johnnie
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Cope, are Ye Waking Yet ? " has a well-deserved
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place in most collections of Scottish songs .

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